Synonyms:
sheepishly
Meaning: in a sheepish manner; "sheepishly he handed her back the money"
Usage examples
Tom nodded sheepishly.
Abram grinned sheepishly.
The other diggers looked sheepishly at Julia, who stood eyeing them in a way that made them feel "too foolish for anything," as one of them afterwards expressed it.
At last her husband came to her, somewhat sheepishly, for he disliked to tell her the intention he had in his heart; but at length he made her understand that just because he was married was no reason why he should remain at home with the women; and he, too, intended to enlist that very day.